Join us for a family-friendly Workers' Assembly and May Day Celebration! Members of many different communities and unions will share our struggles with each other as we show our solidarity.
We will hear from many different speakers, and conclude the action with a march.
During the course of the COVID pandemic, thousands of the City of Cleveland employees who were Essential Workers reported to work every day to provide us with critical city services that could not stop. We are asking the City of Cleveland to make our Essential Workers whole by compensating them for the time they worked during the 65-week city emergency during the pandemic. We are also asking the city to adopt our Essential Worker Bill of Rights to protect workers if we experience another pandemic or state of emergency in the future.
With April Fools on our doorstep, it's time we said goodbye to Banana Month. Thanks so much to everyone who came to our webinars, engaged with our traveling team, read our musings, and used our new POS in their stores!
For 20 years, Fair Trade has empowered farmers and workers in countries around the world with protections against the harsh realities of agricultural work. Within the last two years, that has also come to include the United States. This National Farmworker Awareness Week (March 24-31), it’s important to recognize and appreciate the estimated 2-3 million U.S. men and women who work the fields to feed us every day. By purchasing produce with the Fair Trade Certified™ sticker, we all have the power to make the world a better place to live and work for them.
Lupita López Dearcia Comitán is a farmworker in Sonora, Mexico. She’s forty-four years old, has five children, and just so happens to grow the cucumbers you put in your salad last night. It’s a job she has a lot of pride in. Most people don’t know that cucumbers grow on vines like tomatoes, requiring constant care to ensure that the plant grows in the proper direction. It’s a technique called “training”, and Lupita has the practice down to a science.
We are happy to announce that on March 22, the film projectionist union IATSE Local 160 and Playhouse Square reached a final agreement about the labor dispute surrounding the Cleveland International Film Festival. Thanks to everyone who stood up in support of the union projectionists. There is strength in solidarity!
Our next open meeting is March 24th from 12:00 - 1:00pm ET on zoom. This is a great meeting to attend if you'd like to learn more about the Northeast Ohio Worker Center and would like to start getting more involved! We will be introducing you to the new members of our first board, providing an overview of our committee work for 2022, and updating yall on the Guardians for Fair Work campaign. And on March 30th, the Guardians for Fair Work are hosting a community meeting at Cornucopia Place. The purpose of this meeting will be to build support for the campaign and lift up our experiences as workers while sharing a meal. We'd love to have you join us in-person at Cornucopia Place! See the attached flyer for additional details.
The national Poor People’s Campaign will be holding a major event in Cleveland on Monday, March 14: the first of eight cities across the country: A National Call for Moral Revival Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly & Moral March on Washington and to the Polls Mobilization Tour. It will be led by the two national co-chairs, Rev William Barber. and Rev. Liz Theoharris. This will be a leadup move towards the Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington on June 18, 2022.
Please join us for a 90-minute webinar focused on labor relations in Nicaragua, including questions such as: How does the current situation compare with the previous neoliberal years? How have trade union rights been restored since 2007? How are wages and benefits negotiated?
Bring your own questions! There will be ample time for discussion following our featured speakers.
Join our panelists in discussing their tips for merchandising our fruit, changing pricing, and telling the fair trade story! Store produce managers will share their own experience promoting EE bananas and Fairtrade America representative will go over the latest data on consumer insights.
